Diversity Management, News and Updates
In not necessarily surprising but still disturbing news, a new study from the University of Virginia reveals that locations with a greater number of Confederate monuments tended to have a more extensive history of public lynchings of Black men and women. Kynala Phillips of NBC News reported that the study,…
More than 60 years after the tragic lynching of Emmett Till in Mississippi — a 14-year-old Black teen who was abducted, tortured, and shot in 1955 by two white men, purely for the “crime” of speaking to a white woman — it appears our country still can’t seem to progress…
An Illinois professor has been suspended from his job and charged with a hate crime after he allegedly spat on and racially attacked a Black female driver in a suburban Chicago grocery store parking lot earlier this month. Antonio Planas of NBC News has reported that Alberto Friedmann, a professor…
A man from Long Island, New York, is under arrest following a disturbing series of hate crimes targeting Latino men he committed over the weekend. Tim Stelloh of NBC News has reported that 19-year-old Christopher Cella stands accused of first targeting and then attacking three different Latinx men in a…
Justice has been served for a Georgia teenager whose violent high school attack was captured on video and has since gone viral on social media. According to reports, the culprit faces juvenile charges for attacking another student wearing an LGBTQ Pride flag after being egged on by peers with a…
In 2015, a then 21-year-old Dylann Roof opened fire during Bible study lessons in a Charleston, South Carolina church, senselessly murdering nine Black churchgoers. The victims included three reverends (one of whom was a former state Senator), a librarian and two senior citizens, including one woman who had worked within…
In one of the most disturbing hate crimes in recent memory, a white Iowa woman has been sentenced to 25 years in federal prison for using her vehicle to violently plow into two children in two separate incidents based purely on their race. Minyvonne Burke of NBC News reported that…
Michael Frederick Jr. of Warren, Michigan, terrorized his Black neighbors for weeks in 2020, damaging vehicles, painting graffiti on their home and breaking windows. During sentencing for his crimes, Frederick claimed he had no ill will towards the couple — he just didn’t like the Black Lives Matter sign they…
In a senseless act of violence and tragic loss of life, Alvin Motley Jr., 48, was shot and killed while fueling up his car — because a white security guard thought he was playing his music too loudly. David K. Li of NBC News has reported that Motley, who lived…
An Iowa man has been sentenced to up to 10 years in prison for shooting a 15-year-old Black girl. The incident took place following a pro-Trump political rally he attended late last year. The Associated Press reported that “Michael McKinney, 26, of St. Charles, pleaded guilty in June to intimidation…
